Highlights

Research Awards

• Thrust Group 3 spins off a Phase II NFI CCI (9/2011): Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry

Faculty Awards

• Robert Tanguay received "Distinguished Professor award at OSU, 3/2011
• Richard Taylor honored with the 2010 Thomas F. Herman Faculty Achievement Award for Distinguished Teaching.
• Galya Orr was recognized as a DOE Outstanding Mentor and as a nominee for the Fitzner-Eberhardt award.
• James E. Hutchison, Department of Chemistry & Materials Science Institute, Director SNNI, University of Oregon
  • Named the 2008 Lokey-Harrington Endowed Chair in Pure and Applied Chemistry
  • Honoree: 2006 L. Carroll King Memorial Lecture
• Mark Longergan is one of the first two reciepients to receive funding through private gifts to the University Venture Development Fund (UVDF), a state income tax credit program designed to help move research discoveries to the marketplace.
• Stacey Harper, Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology and Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University
  • 2011: Outstanding New Environmental Scientist from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ($1.9 Million)
  • 2009: Named Vice-Chair of the ASTM E56 Committee on Nanotechnology
  • 2008: Environmental Science Communication Fellowship
  • 2007: Best Platform Presentation at the Pacific Northwest Association of Toxicologists annual meeting in September 2007
• David Johnson, Department of Chemistry & Materials Science Institute University of Oregon
  • 2007 named Haughland Chair of Chemistry
  • 2006 Outstanding Scientist Award, Oregon Academy of Science

Student Awards

• Rick Glover won best poster in the Environmental exposures/Green Nano poster session at the Environmental Nanotechnology Gordon Research in 2011 (Advisor: Jim Hutchison, UO)
• Lisa Truong won a Ruth Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA); funded for 3 years by NIEHS at $33,000 a year (Advisor: Robert Tanguay, OSU)
• Lallie McKenzie, Department of Chemistry, UO won the 2008 Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award for green chemistry, becoming the second national winner from Jim Hutchison's green chemistry/nanotechnology laboratory (Advisor: Jim Hutchison, UO)
• Clayton Jefferies, Department of Chemical Engineering, OSU won best paper award. "Two-stage bioreactor culture of the pennate diatom Pinnularia for the fabrication of a TiO2-based solar cell. 22nd Northwest Algal Symposium, U. Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, Charleston, OR, April 5th, 2008 (Advisor: Greg Rorrer, OSU)